Well back in March the stock market was not looking so good. Therefore, I sold
the January 2010 call on the Diamonds with a strike of 90. You can look at post
number 168 for the details. Since that time, we have had a nice rally. Many of
my stocks have appreciated significantly and several short put positions [...]

Your stock watch list is a list of stocks that you will review on a daily or weekly basis looking for potential trades. I showed you how to find the best stocks to buy…

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I’m writing this on the fly…Tonight is the night where you will have the chance to sign up for the option trading newsletter Trading Insight.
I have to attend my nephew’s birthday party so I’ll have to upload the page sometime tonight when I return.

For several weeks now in our Volatility Tracker we’ve noted the persistence of a premium in longer-dated VIX futures versus the front-month contract and especially the spot VIX. Historically, divergences like these have resolved in favor of the futures price rather than the spot VIX price, which has tended to correlate with a decline in [...]

Volatility Tracker for the week of July 27, 2009
Equities continued to rally last week in defiance of any “overbought” technical readings. [4] Nevertheless, until the contrary signals noted last week abate – specifically, the term structure of volatility futures [7] and the VIX Premium Ratio [8] – I don’t anticipate much upside potential. Note that [...]

The market continues to surge higher. It has broken through resistance at SPY 96 and it did not even retest that level before it staged its next rally. Buyers drove prices higher yesterday after a decent initial jobless claims number. Bears had everything they could ask for on Wednesday (a 5% decline in Chinese stocks, [...]

In the last five months, the market has staged a 45% rally. Over 11% of that rally has come in the last three weeks and the market is not showing any signs of weakness. If it were going to pull back, yesterday was the perfect opportunity. Durable goods orders were weaker than expected, the afternoon [...]

The market has staged a huge rally and it is looking for its next catalyst. Profits have easily beaten estimates and decent results are expected as we enter the home stretch for earnings season. My concern with this rally is that transportation stocks and energy stocks are moving higher on weak fundamentals. Railroads and truckers [...]

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